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There’s a sort of amazing nexus of visibility that Jennifer’s Body](Jennifer's Body (2009) - Movie | Moviefone) is enjoying as it moves towards its opening day: men and women alike are obsessed with any- and everything Megan Fox does, and critics and audiences are curious to see how successfully Diablo Cody will follow-up her Oscar-winning script for Juno. Meanwhile, director Karyn Kusama bears the burden not only of shepherding the result of their efforts and the test for those expectations into theaters, but is in herself in search of a project that can both fulfill and overcome the preconceptions of viewers familiar with her two previous films, the acclaimed independent film Girlfight](Girlfight (2000) - Movie | Moviefone) and the decidedly less-acclaimed studio opus Aeon Flux](Æon Flux (2005) - Movie | Moviefone).
*Cinematical *recently sat down with Kusama for an epic conversation about her latest film, Jennifer’s Body. In addition to discussing the project’s origins and inspirations, she talked about tapping into expectations without acquiescing to them, examined the high-profile careers of her collaborators, and offered a few insights into her own creative process. (Check back tomorrow for part two, which further delves into her own feelings about the film’s themes and her execution of its ideas.)
Cinematical: How did you process Diablo’s writing style when you were directing and maybe even editing? Because she was kind of an unknown quantity when you started working on this but now she obviously has a style that polarizes audiences.
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